Claude Léopold Genneté - Nouvelle construction de cheminées - 1760

Genneté (Claude Léopold)

New chimney construction that guarantees fire and smoke resistance against winds, sun, rain, and other causes that cause ordinary chimneys to smoke.

Liège, at Desoer's, 1760.

1 volume small octavo (17 x 9.5 cm), havana brown calfskin (period binding), decorated spine with raised bands, title pieces in morocco, red edges, xxvii-28-142-[2] pages (complete).
Default defects include missing head covering, rounded corners; all the latest.
Few and some brownish pages. Good overall condition.

Illustrated with 13 fold-out copper-engraved plates.

Second enlarged edition of this treatise by Claude Léopold Genneté, a physicist and fumiste of the Emperor of Germany in the 18th century. He became known for useful inventions. He aimed to solve the problem of a chimney that did not smoke and conducted numerous experiments, even studying the mechanism of air circulation in the coal mines of the Liège region. It was not enough for him to find ways to prevent smoke; he also wanted to give his chimneys other advantages, such as the ability to smother fires when they start, to ignite them quickly, to retain heat, and so on...

Pleasant specimen.